An emergency ruling by a federal judge in California amounted to the broadest effort yet to halt the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal government. By Zach Montague and Eileen Sullivan ...

The latest executive order is aimed at preventing possible pandemics as scientists study viruses and other pathogens, the White House says. Separately, Harvard has been told it won't receive any new ...

The bird-themed social network Twitter's identity may have been X-ed out by new owner Elon Musk, but that hasn't stopped one of its cofounders, Jack Dorsey, from taking on new bird names for a new ...

Facepalm: Elon Musk is making a major change to the way blocking works on his former Twitter platform, X. The billionaire owner has announced that once the change is implemented, those who you have ...

Abstract: Integer programming with block structures has received considerable attention recently and is widely used in many practical applications such as train timetabling and vehicle routing ...

Abstract: The main challenge of exposing IEC61499 or IEC61131-3 Function Blocks as a service remains in adopting service-oriented concepts in function block programming. Implementing an IEC61499 or ...

IEC-1131 is the first international standard for process control software. By using IEC-1131, a programmer can develop a control algorithm for a particular brand of controller, and import that same ...

June 8, 2010 - The success of the PLCopen Motion Control started with the release of the first specification in November 2001. Feedback from both users and implementers resulted in an update in 2005, ...